• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권12호
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• pp.1678-1684
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• 2018

Dental caries is one of the most popular oral disease. The aim of automatic dental cavity detection system is helping dentist to make accurate diagnosis. It is very important to separate cavity from the teeth in the detection system. In this paper, We compared two active contour algorithms, Snake and DRLSE(Distance Regularized Level Set Evolution). To improve performance, image is selected ROI(region of interest), then applied bilateral filter, Canny edge. In order to evaluate the algorithms, we applied to 7 tooth phantoms from incisor to molar. Each teeth contains two cavities of different shape. As a result, Snake is faster than DRLSE, but Snake has limitation to compute topology of objects. DRLSE is slower but those of performance is better.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.217-231
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• 2016

This paper presents a new approach for underwater image analysis using the bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) technique and the phase congruency information. The BEMD algorithm, fully unsupervised, it is mainly applied to texture extraction and image filtering, which are widely recognized as a difficult and challenging machine vision problem. The phase information is the very stability feature of image. Recent developments in analysis methods on the phase congruency information have received large attention by the image researchers. In this paper, the proposed method is called the EP model that inherits the advantages of the first two algorithms, so this model is suitable for processing underwater image. Moreover, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is presented in this paper to solve the problem that the threshold is greatly affected by personal experience when underwater image edge detection is performed using the EP model. The EP images are computed using combinations of the Canny detector parameters, and the binaryzation image results are generated accordingly. The ideal EP edge feature extractive maps are estimated using correspondence threshold which is optimized by ROC analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is able to avoid the operation error caused by manual setting of the detection threshold, and to adaptively set the image feature detection threshold. The proposed method has been proved to be accuracy and effectiveness by the underwater image processing examples.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.24-31
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• 2015

Flame structure, which contains a useful information for studying combustion instability of the flame, is often quantitatively visualized with PLIF (planar laser-induced fluorescence) and/or chemiluminescence images. The latter, a line-integral of a flame property, needs to be preprocessed before being inverted, mainly due to its inherent noise and the axisymmetry assumption of the inversion. A preprocessing scheme utilizing multi-division of ROI (region of interest) of the chemiluminescence image is proposed. Its feasibility has been tested with OH PLIF and $OH^*$ chemiluminescence images of SNG (synthetic natural gas) swirl-stabilized flames taken from a model gas turbine combustor. It turns out that the multi-division technique outperforms two conventional ones: those are, one without preprocessing and the other with uni-division preprocessing, reconstructing the SNG flame structure much better than its two counterparts, when compared with the corresponding OH PLIF images. It is also found that the Canny edge detection algorithm used for detecting edges in the multi-division method works better than the Sobel algorithm does.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.220-228
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• 2022

Image always carry useful information, detecting a text from scene images is imperative. The proposed work's purpose is to recognize scene text image, example boarding image kept on highways. Scene text detection on highways boarding's plays a vital role in road safety measures. At initial stage applying preprocessing techniques to the image is to sharpen and improve the features exist in the image. Likely, morphological operator were applied on images to remove the close gaps exists between objects. Here we proposed a two phase algorithm for extracting and recognizing text from scene images. In phase I text from scenery image is extracted by applying various image preprocessing techniques like blurring, erosion, tophat followed by applying thresholding, morphological gradient and by fixing kernel sizes, then canny edge detector is applied to detect the text contained in the scene images. In phase II text from scenery image recognized using MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Region) and OCR; Proposed work aimed to detect the text contained in the scenery images from popular dataset repositories SVT, ICDAR 2003, MSRA-TD 500; these images were captured at various illumination and angles. Proposed algorithm produces higher accuracy in minimal execution time compared with state-of-the-art methodologies.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.661-669
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze Deep Learning (DL) and Digital Image Processing (DIP) techniques using the results of the glottis segmentation of the two methods followed by the quantification of the asymmetric degree of the vocal cord mucosa. The data consists of 40 normal and abnormal images. The DL model is based on Deeplab V3 architecture, and the Canny edge detector algorithm and morphological operations are used for the DIP technique. According to the segmentation results, the average accuracy of the DL model and the DIP was 97.5% and 94.7% respectively. The quantification results showed high correlation coefficients for both the DL experiment (r=0.8512, p<0.0001) and the DIP experiment (r=0.7784, p<0.0001). In the conclusion, the DL model showed relatively higher segmentation accuracy than the DIP. In this paper, we propose the clinical applicability of this technique applying the segmentation and asymmetric quantification algorithm to the glottal area in the laryngoscopic images.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.339-345
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• 2016

웹 사이트나 블로그 등에 사진을 업로드 할 때 특정인의 초상권을 보호하기 위해 사람의 얼굴을 블러링하거나 타인에게 혐오감을 주지 않기 위해 혐오스러운 물건들을 모자이크 처리하는 경우가 많이 있다. 본 논문에서는 다양하게 입력되는 영상에서 일정한 영역들을 가리기 위해 사용한 격자형 모자이크 영역들을 에지 프로젝션을 기반으로 정확하게 검출하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 먼저 입력 영상으로부터 캐니 에지를 검출하고, 수평과 수직 에지 프로젝션을 이용해 모자이크의 후보 영역들을 검출한다. 그런 다음, 크기나 밀집도 등의 기하학적인 특징들을 사용해 모자이크의 후보 영역들을 효과적으로 필터링함으로써 최종적으로 실제 모자이크 영역들을 검출한다. 실험 결과에서는 제안된 알고리즘이 입력되는 다양한 영상으로부터 모자이크 블록에 해당하는 영역들을 기존의 다른 검출 방법에 비해 보다 정확하게 검출한다는 것을 보여준다. 본 논문에서 제안된 모자이크 검출 방법은 개인 정보 블로킹, 영상 복원 및 후처리 등과 같은 멀티미디어 콘텐츠와 관련된 여러 가지 실제 응용분야에서 매우 유용하게 활용될 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.689-698
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• 2021

본 논문에서는, 블루투스 무선통신 및 영상처리 기법을 이용한 차선 인식, 조향제어 및 속도제어 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 자율주행 차량이 영상처리 기법 기반으로 도로 교통 신호를 인식하는 대신에 블루투스 무선통신을 이용하여 전자 교통 신호로부터 속도 코드를 수신하여 도로 허용속도를 인식하는 방법론을 개발하였다. 그리고 캐니 알고리즘, 허프 변환을 이용하여 차선을 추적하도록 하는 PWM 제어 기반의 조향제어 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 개발된 알고리즘의 정확성을 확인하기 위해서 차량 시작품과 차량 및 주행 트랙 시작품을 개발하였다. 조향제어 및 속도제어를 위한 주제어 장치로 라즈베리 파이 및 아두이노를 각각 적용하였으며 구현 언어로는 Python과 OpenCV를 사용하였다. 차량 시작품과 모의트랙을 이용한 차선 추적 및 운전 제어 성능 평가 실험에서 유효한 성능을 보임으로서 제안된 방법론의 실효성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.205-215
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• 2024

Manually mapping fractures in construction stone mines is challenging, time-consuming, and hazardous. In this method, there is no physical access to all points. In contrast, digital image processing offers a safe, cost-effective, and fast alternative, with the capability to map all joints. In this study, two methods of detecting the trace of discontinuities using image processing in construction stone mines are presented. To achieve this, we employ two modified Hough transform algorithms and the degree of neighborhood technique. Initially, we introduced a method for selecting the best edge detector and smoothing algorithms. Subsequently, the Canny detector and median smoother were identified as the most efficient tools. To trace discontinuities using the mentioned methods, common preprocessing steps were initially applied to the image. Following this, each of the two algorithms followed a distinct approach. The Hough transform algorithm was first applied to the image, and the traces were represented through line drawings. Subsequently, the Hough transform results were refined using fuzzy clustering and reduced clustering algorithms, along with a novel algorithm known as the farthest points' algorithm. Additionally, we developed another algorithm, the degree of neighborhood, tailored for detecting discontinuity traces in construction stones. After completing the common preprocessing steps, the thinning operation was performed on the target image, and the degree of neighborhood for lineament pixels was determined. Subsequently, short lines were removed, and the discontinuities were determined based on the degree of neighborhood. In the final step, we connected lines that were previously separated using the method to be described. The comparison of results demonstrates that image processing is a suitable tool for identifying rock mass discontinuity traces. Finally, a comparison of two images from different construction stone mines presented at the end of this study reveals that in images with fewer traces of discontinuities and a softer texture, both algorithms effectively detect the discontinuity traces.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.358-363
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• 2009

자연이미지로부터 텍스트 영역 검출은 다양한 응용분야에 활용됨으로 이 분야의 많은 연구가 필요하다. 최근의 연구 방법은 에지 및 연결요소 기반 방법을 결합하는 다양한 알고리즘을 이용하여 텍스트 영역을 검출하고 있다. 그러므로 본 논문은 이러한 결합방법으로 에지 및 국부적 최소/최대 변환 방법을 이용하여 텍스트 영역을 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 명도 이미지로부터 에지 및 국부적 최소/최대 연결성분을 검출하고, 에지 및 국부적 최소/최대 연결성분을 레이블화한다. 레이블된 영역을 분석하여 텍스트 후보 영역을 검출하고, 검출된 각각의 텍스트 후보 영역을 결합하여 단일 텍스트 후보 이미지를 생성한다. 텍스트 후보 개별문자의 인접성 및 유사도를 비교하여 검증함으로서 최종적인 텍스트 영역을 검출한다. 실험결과 제안한 알고리즘은 에지 요소 및 국부적 최소/최대 연결요소 검출 방법을 결합하여 자연 이미지로부터 텍스트 영역 검출의 정확도 및 재현률을 향상할 수 있었다.

• 대기
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.119-131
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• 2017

We present and discuss the Tropopause Folding Turbulence Detection (TFTD) algorithm for the Korean Communication, Ocean, Meteorological Satellite (COMS) which is originally developed for the Tropopause Folding Turbulence Product (TFTP) from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R. The TFTD algorithm assumes that the tropopause folding is linked to the Clear Air Turbulence (CAT), and thereby the tropopause folding areas are detected from the rapid spatial gradients of the upper tropospheric specific humidity. The Layer Averaged Specific Humidity (LASH) is used to represent the upper tropospheric specific humidity calculated using COMS $6.7{\mu}m$ water vapor channel and ERA-interim reanalysis temperature at 300, 400, and 500 hPa. The comparison of LASH with the numerical model specific humidity shows a strong negative correlation of 80% or more. We apply the single threshold, which is determined from sensitivity analysis, for cloud-clearing to overcome strong gradient of LASH at the edge of clouds. The tropopause break lines are detected from the location of strong LASH-gradient using the Canny edge detection based on the image processing technique. The tropopause folding area is defined by expanding the break lines by 2-degree positive gradient direction. The validations of COMS TFTD is performed with Pilot Reports (PIREPs) filtered out Convective Induced Turbulence (CIT) from Dec 2013 to Nov 2014 over the South Korea. The score test shows 0.49 PODy (Probability of Detection 'Yes') and 0.64 PODn (Probability of Detection 'No'). Low POD results from various kinds of CAT reported from PIREPs and the characteristics of high sensitivity in edge detection algorithm.